On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote: > What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to > be updated?
There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ), dispatch-conf and cfg-update. > It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it > actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually look > them over to see what the differences are? This will show the new files: # find /etc -name ._cfg* > Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed? What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or cfg-update. Personally I use dispatch-conf because I learned that first and it satisfies my needs. I think cfg-update is superior but never bothered to investigate. A couple of references: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622 -- Bo Andresen
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